Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) are warning of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide in multiple industries, including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

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DDOS Healthcare Ransomware Mobile 83

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email. Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. For instance, malicious actors can use malware to enslave exposed IoT devices into a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Healthcare 122

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Examples include GDPR in Europe, HIPAA in healthcare, and PCI DSS for payment card data. Implement DDoS protection: Deploy dedicated protection mechanisms to prevent DDoS attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. And that (b) we are also likely to see a steep increase in DDoS extortion campaigns as the Cyberwar in Ukraine leads to all-time-high levels of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

billion Cisco confirms that data leaked by the Yanluowang ransomware gang were stolen from its systems Some firmware bugs in HP business devices are yet to be fixed Albania was hit by a new cyberattack and blames Iran Iran-linked APT42 is behind over 30 espionage attacks.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

A decent ransom was demanded from the healthcare provider, but surprisingly, smaller sums were also demanded from the patients, who had received the ransom demands individually by email. Threat actors identify open RDP servers and either perform a brute force login attack or utilise phished credentials to gain access to servers.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

DDoS (distributed denial of service) mitigation. Defenders can no longer fight attacks with classic defenses, and it’s especially true with phishing campaigns. New kinds of Phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are a traditional but efficient way to compromise a network. Intrusion and malware detection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This threat seeks to target and take advantage of victims’ fears, insecurities, and vulnerabilities through phishing, mass mailing and social engineering. These attacks targeted some African countries’ critical infrastructure, including healthcare and maritime sectors. of the overall number.

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Cybercrime Scams DDOS Banking 88

Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks A nation state may utilize Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to attack military or national security infrastructure and capabilities, critical infrastructure, healthcare services, or other quality of life services. The best way to protect yourself is to be vigilant.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Penetration testing can also involve common hacking techniques such as social engineering , phishing attacks , dropped USB drive attacks, etc. However, all it takes is one bad click on a phishing campaign, and suddenly attackers will be looking at an organization from the inside. Overwhelming Workloads. Why Both Are Important.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Criminals quickly realised they have more chance of payment if they make additional threats, like leaking the stolen data, selling it on, or even hitting the target with DDoS attacks to knock out their systems and networks. This constant ramping up of pressure can make even the steeliest of nerves buckle.

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Ransomware Social Engineering DDOS Healthcare 98

Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

Phishing Campaign Detection: A healthcare provider used email traffic heat maps to identify unusual spikes in phishing emails targeting specific departments. For instance: Heatmaps can visualize areas of high activity that may indicate a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

CISA is warning about a spear-phishing campaign that spreads malicious RDP files. 1 - CISA: Beware of nasty spear-phishing campaign Proactively restrict outbound remote-desktop protocol (RDP) connections. 1 - CISA: Beware of nasty spear-phishing campaign Proactively restrict outbound remote-desktop protocol (RDP) connections.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security.

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DDOS Encryption Data breaches Identity Theft 69

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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Spyware Data breaches Ransomware Hacking 55

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Firewalls are used to safeguard cloud resources from unauthorized access and possible dangers like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults. healthcare, finance) that impose strict security standards. Educate users on the value of strong passwords and the dangers of phishing attempts.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

Between malware , phishing attacks , zero-day threats , advanced persistent threats , reconnaissance, and brute force attacks, hackers are looking for any and every avenue into a network. Firepower NGFWs provide advanced malware protection, security intelligence, sandboxing, DDoS mitigation, and a next-generation intrusion prevention system.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

If DeepSeek's breakthrough allows Chinese companies to leap ahead in industries like semiconductors, healthcare, and autonomous systems, it could shift global economic power away from U.S. DeepSeek's announcement doesn't just carry economic implications; it poses direct challenges to the cybersecurity landscape.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The industries affected included everything from IT to retail, from oil and gas to healthcare. This way, with attackers switching to distributing malicious files via phishing emails, it has become more difficult to track the version of the user’s software, or how far the attack went. But our visibility showed otherwise.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email. Black Basta uses a double-extortion RaaS model with the added threat of DDoS attacks. There are several methods of delivering ransomware attacks. What is Ransomware as a Service?

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botnet owners (botmasters) sell access to the victim machines in bulk as a resource that can be monetized in many ways, such as organizing DDoS attacks, distributing spam or, in the case of ransomware, by piggybacking on this initial infection to get a foothold in a potential target. Access sellers. On April 26, the D.C.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The attack is one of a long line of ransomware attacks targeting healthcare institutions. It serves as a warning to regularly backup company data and train every employee on how to identify phishing and social engineering attacks. However, the hospital did not disclose if they paid the ransom or recovered the encrypted data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

DarkGate, developed by RastaFarEye and active since 2018, exploits security holes in Microsoft Excel and HTML attachments to overcome defenses and deliver malicious payloads, primarily targeting healthcare, telecommunications, and finance sectors around the world.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

For example, hackers can use packet sniffers or a phishing link using a man-in-the-middle attack. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks currently will be used more often against internet-exposed resources, but can also be used by an attacker to take down networks and internal servers.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Killnet, led by a person nicknamed “KillMilk”, is one of the leaders of the hacktivist movement that uses DDoS as a means of disruption. Our analysis delved into BlindEagle’s most recent espionage campaign, covering the entire infection flow from the initial spear-phishing emails to the deployment of the njRAT implant.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A companion to Europol’s IOCTA 2023 report , it digs deeper into malware – ransomware in particular – and DDoS attacks. It found the most common intrusion tactics are phishing emails containing malware, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute forcing, and exploiting Virtual Private Network (VPN) vulnerabilities.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In August 2022, LockBit’s data-leak sites were taken offline multiple times after being hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The DDoS attacks followed LockBit’s breach of cyber-security company Entrust. Phishing scams normally abound, requiring caution from both companies and consumers.

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Ransomware Government Marketing Healthcare 52

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI-assisted threats are more common, where AI helps threat actors create variants of existing malware or better phishing email lures 7. Healthcare robot vulnerabilities: In 2022, Cynerio researchers found five vulnerabilities in Aethon TUG autonomous robots used in hospitals across the United States.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Financial institutions, healthcare, public sector and government agencies, manufacturing, and energy companies are all embracing digital business trends. For instance, DDOS attacks are effective because they send a barrage of requests that eventually overwhelm and take down the targeted servers.

Technology 40

Technology Energy and Utilities Authentication Banking 40

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The top five most frequently attacked industries include manufacturing (94 victims), retail (51 victims), state agencies (39 victims), healthcare (38 victims), and construction (30 victims). Threat actors have also set a new record in DDoS attack power: 2.3 Phishing grows by 118%. billion, while textual data – to $361.7

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Banking Ransomware Phishing Manufacturing 143

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Email-based phishing attacks : These can include both of the above attacks and typically target employees through their business email accounts. DoS and DDoS attacks DDoS attacks can make your public-facing applications and websites inaccessible, causing massive revenue loss. Segmentation.

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